#scavvers

December’s loot is LIVE!

This set features Dohwar, Reigar and ther Golems, Void Scavvers and Vampirates. 

Scavvers are sharklike spaceborne life.  They drift through Wildspace in a dormant state until they encounter an air envelope, whereupon they revive and try to find something to eat.  They avoid large planets, because flying in their atmospheres takes too much effort.  They broadly fall into four categories.

Gray scavvers are the smallest, being around 6 feet long and primarily scavengers.  They are little threat to spacers, but they use up fresh air, so no one wants them around anyway.  Their meat lacks flavor, but at least you can eat ‘em.

Brown scavvers are pure scavengers, and will flee combat for a little while, only to drift back around.  These guys are poisonous.  They’re about ten feet long, big enough to count as Large, and can swallow a Medium or smaller creature whole.  Their gullets can hold one Medium creature or two Small creatures, and are full of poison.  Poison is one of the few sources of genuine Save Or Die in AD&D, and folks swallowed by a brown scavver have to save vs. poison or die in 3 rounds.  They can pass the time by trying to carve their way out.  Brown scavvers can also regurgitate a cloud of their poisonous bile once a day.  Anyone caught in the cloud must save at +3 or die in 3 rounds.  Anything that eats brown scavver meat must save or die in 3 rounds.  Only gray scavvers are dumb enough to eat brown scavver meat on their own.  Oh, and here’s a fugu joke, ha-ha, about the Shou eating carefully prepared brown scavver dishes.

Night scavvers are 15 feet long, black with white speckles along their backs, and are stubborn enough to cruise the open deck of a starship if there’s only a few people on deck, looking for food.  They can swallow people whole like the brown scavver, but they aren’t poisonous, and they are both omnivorous and not too bright, so their gullets are full of trash, like a shark’s stomach might be.  The contents of a night scavver’s stomach might include a few coins, or maybe a ring.  Night scavvers are delicious, and crews make every reasonable effort to catch them when they can, so these treasures stand a good chance of seeing the light of day again.